Volume
13, Issue 1 (22 September 2011)

Conversations
with the painters Mwenze Kibwanga and Pilipili Mulongoy

transcribed,
translated, and annotated by

Johannes
Fabian

University of Amsterdam

As announced in the
introduction to the preceding volume, three conversations, originally recorded as
part of a research project conducted by Ilona Szombati-Fabian, are presented
here as historical documents and as valuable background information on
relations between “academic” and popular genre painting. The texts
are based on conversations with two prominent artists who began their career in
Elisabethville/Lubumbashi at the“Académie d'Art Populaire
d’Elisabethville,” known as “Le Hangar,” a private art
school founded in 1946 by Pierre Romain-Desfossés (1887-1954): Mwenze
Kibwanga (1925-1999) and Pilipili Mulongoy (1914-2007). Whenever it seemed
useful I referred in the notes to information available on the Internet (all
accessed between August 2010 and January 2011).

References cited:

Fabian, Johannes. 1996. Remembering the Present. Painting and Popular
History in Zaire.
Berkeley: University of California
Press.